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title: After a while Duke Richard of Normandy rode at Duke Benes, piercing… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: After a while Duke Richard of Normandy rode at Duke Benes, piercing his shield with his spear, and bruising him sorely on the body. Who acts: Duke Richard. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, with its depend
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 46

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After a while Duke Richard of Normandy rode at Duke Benes, piercing his shield with his spear, and bruising him sorely on the body.

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**Who acts:** Duke Richard · **What happens:** ride, pierce, bruise · **To what, where:** shield, Richard, body

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke Richard), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:4:46
# text = After a while Duke Richard of Normandy rode at Duke Benes, piercing his shield with his spear, and bruising him sorely on the body.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	while	while	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Richard	Richard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Normandy	Normandy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Duke	Duke	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Benes	Benes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	piercing	pierce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	bruising	bruise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Duke Richard of Normandy |  |  |  | while | at Duke | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pierce** | gerund | Duke Richard of Normandy *not said here* | Richard's shield |  |  |  | with Richard's spear | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shield=Patient with spear=Instrument |
| 3 | **bruise** | gerund | Duke Richard of Normandy *not said here* | Richard |  | the body |  | sorely *property* | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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